You describe portable sanctuaries, rhythmic convergence, and nervous-system regulation. I’m struck by how closely that maps onto what liturgical traditions have attempted for centuries. Not perfectly—and often corruptly—but structurally.
Susan Sontag warned about the risk of “piety without content” — the drift toward spiritual atmosphere once the load-bearing structures have been removed. I find myself wondering how any movement organized around “high coherence” protects itself from that same gravity.
You write that the internet can coordinate bodies but cannot metabolize projection. That feels right. But historically, projection was metabolized through the unpleasant tools of confession, ritualized hierarchy, repetition, and submission to a shared narrative — the heavy machinery of institutions like the church.
The radical move now may not be to invent a new container, but to ask whether existing ones failed because of their form — or because shadow was never fully integrated. If we bypass institutions to avoid corruption, do we also relinquish the only gravity strong enough to hold projection in place? Maturity may require the very thing the internet age most resists: the friction of permanence.
You describe portable sanctuaries, rhythmic convergence, and nervous-system regulation. I’m struck by how closely that maps onto what liturgical traditions have attempted for centuries. Not perfectly—and often corruptly—but structurally.
Susan Sontag warned about the risk of “piety without content” — the drift toward spiritual atmosphere once the load-bearing structures have been removed. I find myself wondering how any movement organized around “high coherence” protects itself from that same gravity.
You write that the internet can coordinate bodies but cannot metabolize projection. That feels right. But historically, projection was metabolized through the unpleasant tools of confession, ritualized hierarchy, repetition, and submission to a shared narrative — the heavy machinery of institutions like the church.
The radical move now may not be to invent a new container, but to ask whether existing ones failed because of their form — or because shadow was never fully integrated. If we bypass institutions to avoid corruption, do we also relinquish the only gravity strong enough to hold projection in place? Maturity may require the very thing the internet age most resists: the friction of permanence.